Raised and educated in McHenry, Illinois, Clara Belle Owen was a painter who signed her work as C.B. Owen. She began painting portraits while still a teenager and at age 17 did an oil painting, Cribbage Players, of her parents, Oliver William and Harriet Holmes Owen. From that time she did paintings of other family members and of notable persons such as Lillian Russell, the actress, and Senator John Percival Jones of Nevada.

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